THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1863. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22353, 29 August 1934, Page 2

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1863. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS ACO.

POUT CHALMERS— August 28th. The s.s. William, Miakin, on her way down to Invercargill, from which port she returned to-day, called at the Molyneux. to transfer goods to the river steamer Tuapeka. With Captain Louden as pilot she went over the bar easily and safely at half-tide, and the Tuapeka, having received cargo, proceeded up the Matau branch of the river to a distance of six miles above the township of Kaitangata, subsequently making the trip from the mouth of the river to the Clutha ferry in 2 hours and 23 minutes, running time, with forty-five tons of car"o on board. ... The construction of a road from Port Chalmers to the Heads, along the west or shipping side of the harbour, as about to be proposed in the Provincial Council by' Mr John Cargill, is looked upon ns an undertaking calculated to do a great deal towards the development of a valuable piece of nountry, and towards the encouragement of different enterprises connected with shipping. . . .

The discussion on Mr Pinkerton’s motion for the offer of .a Bonus for the introduction of the Alpaca into Otago amply illustrated a great want in this province of which we made mention some time back. We mean a public institution or society charged with the collection and diffusion of correct information as \o the resources and capabilities of our soil and climate. The mover of the resolution, fully impressed with the commercial value of the Alpaca, and no doubt supposing that everyone else must be equally sensible of the fact, neglected to arm himself with the authorities, and statistical data necessary to make out a “case” to convince the incredulous. The seconder of the' proposal had equally left hi# figures behind him, anticipating, we suppose, that nothing more would be necessary to gain the concurrence of < the House than to remind it of the enormous wealth which the Alpaca had been the means of creating for other countries, the large demand that exists for Alpaca wool in England, and the special adaptability to the habits of the animal of large tracts of land in this Province almost worthless for other purposes. . . . The whole discussion became at last so jocular that the grave ceremony of a division was omitted, and the motion dropped. ...

We are glad to be in a position to state that the reported snowing up of 500 men at Campbell’s gully proved to have been exaggerated. ... W 7 e understand that the Congrcgattonalists have purchased the Section in MorayPlacfe, at the corner of View street, ns the site for the intended Congregational Church. The situation is very eligible, and it is to be hoped they -will put up a structure upon it that will be creditable alike to them and Dunedin. Wo ■bdievc they arc making an effort to increase their funds, so that they may at once build in stone Or brick, and not of wood. All who are interested in Dunedin must rejoice to see wood discarded, for public buildings especially. The Rev. R. Connebee, of Kew, well-known and respected in that suburb of Melbourne, has accepted the invitation to settle here as their Minister, and is expected to arrive here in three or four w-eeks.

A specimen of a comparatively rare bird was secured by Mr Liddell, of the Harbor Department, while in attendance yesterday upon the Victory’s passenger? located on Rabbit Island. He picked up a penguin, not of the ordinary type found along the Tasmanian coast, but what is known as an Ichaboe penguin; this specimen resembling much the penguin which frequents the Ichaboe Islands. With this addition to a number of kangaroos, and other importations i; from Tasmania, Port Chalmers 'is. at present in . the possession of . a very promising menagerie. . . The arrangements of the emigrant ship British Crown, which has lately arrived at ' Lyttelton, bringing the first ; consign* .ment of emigrants shipped under the supervision of her Majesty’s Emigration Commissioners, are said to have been in every way so satisfactory and so . much superior to anything previously experienced,, that it is strongly urged that the future immigration arrangements should be entrusted to the Royal Commissioners, in lieu of the Provincial Agent. . . . A novel enterprise has been started by Messrs Snodgrass and ! C°., of Queen street, Melbourne,, namely, the exportation of slaughtered sheep to New Zealand, where good fat sheep are worth' L2 ss, each. The first lot of fifty, as an experiment, was put on board, the steamer Aldinga in strong wire cages ondeck, in which the sheep Mere strung up .as in a butcher’s shop. ... The Rev. Mr Poole, of Melbourne, who has visited Dunedin for the putpoes of promoting the establishment of a Baptist Church, is announced to preach to-morrow at the Court House at 11 o’clock, and in Dr Burns’ Church at half-past six. .